The Hybrid King

Knox Maddox ~

Impatient! Waiting has never been a virtue. My flight is delayed.. and I have been stuck in the Dublin airport for three hours! My Beta, Braxton, finds my discomfort amusing…and, I wonder, if I snap his neck..will I find That amusing?!

I want to get home! Four days away, and I can only imagine the damage my teenage siblings have created! I can usually handle my business from home..but this takeover of Axel Industries required my presence at the signing.

I am a Vampire/Wolf hybrid.. In human years, I look twenty-four…in Vampire years, I am 244… I spent nearly 150 years of my life in captivity..of one form or another. Either chained in a dungeon.. or a laboratory.. or forced to be King of the Vampire Realm.. that was my final enforced captivity.. I abdicated…forcefully.. By that I mean, I decapitated the council..and killed anyone who thought to stop me! My cousin now sits the throne…and I avoid the realm, altogether!

Yes… I can walk in daylight. I am descended from the Original! NO! I do Not sparkle in the sunlight! I am like anyone else..well…anyone who lives with two beasts, sharing their soul! My vampire side is vicious. He calls himself Voltaire.. and he was awakened by force when I was seven..during my first captivity.. apparently, it was believed if he was awakened before my wolf..then Blaze wouldn’t ever manifest. My strength…the strength of my beasts..was highly underrated! Blaze made himself known when I was ten… my second captivity! He surprised us all! Especially when he destroyed the laboratory and all three hundred occupants!

According to a prophecy written about me… my mate and I are supposed to rule the world. A major issue with that… I don’t have a mate! I was told she would be a hybrid.. and since there is only one other interspecies couple in existence..to ever be documented..and they only had one son…my mate simply doesn’t exist! I stopped hoping long ago!

When I abdicated the throne, I wandered the world.. deciding what I wanted to do. I went to school.. I have three degrees.. primarily in business and technology.. I own seven…no, eight, businesses now. All over the world. I created my own pack.. in Wyoming. I wanted a safe place, for ousted wolves.. excommunicated witches…deposed vampires.. a haven where they would feel accepted..and welcome. Which made me extremely popular with the Werewolf King.. the Vampire King..and the High Priestess…as you can imagine. And I don’t give a fuck!

My parents spent their lives..running… hiding..scraping by! Constantly hunted. By both species! My last captivity, they were both murdered by a vampire mercenary team..my younger siblings were able to escape..thanks to our parents quick thinking! My little sister has suffered most..and it took me two years to locate them, once I escaped. Nicholas is full blood werewolf..and Alicia is a vampire. Like I said… I’m the only hybrid!

The announcement came over the loud speaker! Finally! I am ready to be home! Not looking forward to the meeting I have with Alpha Delaney tomorrow…but, at least he understands who I am..being mated to a witch!

Bryndel Delainey

I’m going home! To Wyoming! I have lived here in Glengarry Loch, since I was three. My parents are the only surviving interspecies couple to exist. Centuries ago, there was a Vampire and Werewolf couple..but my Nan told me they were murdered for loving each other. How sad that must be!

Eliot and I have been sent for… my dad thinks times are changing..and he told me about a relatively young pack made up of all species. I can’t help feeling how forward thinking this Alpha is..and it makes me feel a strong sense of pride!

Our flight had been delayed..by nearly four hours…something about inclement weather over the Atlantic.. yeah! I’ll wait! I’m not about taking an ice bath in any intercoastal waterway! Not my idea of a fun Sunday! We are beginning to board now.. which is great! We are flying first class and I am grateful! A nine hour flight…crammed into coach, and I would be a cranky bitch! I know me…and it ain’t pretty!

My younger brother is a full blood wolf. Sometimes, I wonder, if he’s the lucky one..but then, I wouldn’t trade my powers for anything! I like being a witch..but I love my sweet Alaina! I feel like I have the best of both worlds!

We turned eighteen a week ago..and all Alaina has talked about is finding her mate.. I wouldn’t mind finding him either..but I’m not running in circles, chasing my tail over it!

Eliot and I found our seats..getting comfortable.. a nine hour flight requires me napping..maybe twice! Eliot takes out his noise canceling headphones..looking at me, he says “I have work to do and I do not wish to be disturbed..no pinching..punching or squealing at me!” I scowled “I pinched you One Time, you crotchety old coot!” He laughed “Because I pinched you back, and it ‘hurt more’, you whiny little twit!”

I pouted a second..because that’s usually all the time I allow myself to feel negative emotion..and sat back..putting my earbuds in, to listen to my music. The plane was filling up..and I was in no mood for people watching, so I closed my eyes and became engrossed in listening.

Twenty minutes later, Eliot yanked my earbud out and whisper yelled “Stop singing! People are staring!” Well..Oops! Excuse the fuck out of me! Then he told me to listen to the safety directions, instead. Being nervous about the flight anyway.. I decided to definitely listen..even though, we wouldn’t die in a crash!

We taxied down the runway..and within minutes were airborne. It was then that I realized…drinking a 44 ounce big gulp was probably not a smart idea. I leaned over my seat..hanging into the aisle..to see how far the bathroom was. It looked to be an average length…like two miles! Of walking past strangers..all of them knowing I am going to pee! Oh the humiliation! I slammed myself back in the seat…glaring at the seat belt sign.. that has yet to go off!

Eliot sighs “What’s your deal, now!?” I shoot him a malicious glare “I have to pee!” He chuckled at me “And you have to pass twenty people…who will know you are heading to do a perfectly natural bodily function, everyone has to do…but it’s too embarrassing!” I grinned. He’s right..but he’s a smartass!

Fifteen minutes later, the pilot came on, telling us he is turning the light off..but there are warnings of turbulence ahead, so he may have to request us to reseat ourselves. Fine! I am going to make a run for the bathroom and pray no one else has to go..it’s bad enough to do the walk of shame..but to stand in a long assed queue doing the peepee dance, would be beyond embarrassment!

I was right! The aisle was two miles long.. watching the toes of my Uggs the entire way… Reaching the door..and..thank you Goddess! I am first in line.. I practically jump into the bathroom and slide the occupied lock in place…yanking my leggings down! I am so relieved! Figuratively and Literally! I feel twenty pounds lighter..and no longer in fear of the whites of my eyes turning yellow! Whew! Washing my hands, and smoothing my unruly red curly hair.. I step out.. to a queue, thinking Ha! Yay me!

I headed back to the front..ready to snuggle down for a movie..and maybe a nap. Worming my way around the line of people, as soon as my foot landed on the aisle, the pilot came on…demanding we return to our seats..and we hit a pocket of turbulence. My 5’ one hundred pound frame literally bounced in the air and came back down.. Landing my little ass directly in the lap of the most gorgeous man on the entire planet.. his eyes are gray! Gray!! Oh My Goddess! Black hair pulled into a high manbun..with dimples! Beautiful dimples…and the brightest whitest teeth of anyone I have ever seen… grinning at me! He raised an eyebrow, and I realized I was still in his lap! I jumped up…stammering an apology “ I am sooo sorry! It wasn’t my fault! I don’t know what happened! I was walking..then I was bouncing.. and I didn’t mean to land in your lap. It was an accident!” He grinned wider at my rambling and said “Please consider my lap always open for your delicious ass to bounce on!” And yep! My whole body melted…frickin voice smooth as a good whiskey! My face was frozen in a cheshire cat grin!